When I first started blogging, I had no idea if I would make money blogging or if I would stick with it!
But, I did!
I replaced my full-time income only blogging part-time – and with twin toddlers to boot!
Learning how to start a blog was one of the best decisions I made for my family.
Now both my husband and I stay home, hustle together and create the life we want for our twins.
My twins are eight years old now, and I’m doing this full-time!
When I first decided to stay home with my twins, I looked online to find out what I can do to make money at home.
My husband has always worked at home and he suggested to read blogs and learn what is a blog.
I wasn’t too familiar with blogging, but I soon learned how a blog can help you make money and stay home for good.
If you are new and wondering what is a blog, I thought this post might help break this down and make it easier to understand!
You might hear blog or website thrown around. Maybe even self-hosted blog or WordPress blog. What is what and is there a right way to blogging?
Excited because you wrote your first blog post?
It’s thrilling isn’t it!
But, sometimes the thrill is short lived because your new content didn’t attract many readers!
Want to know a secret?
When I first started Twins Mommy, I launched my blog with only 1 blog post! I was excited and I was sure I was going to get readers. I even emailed my freelance writing list of thousands about this new blog and blog post.
Want to know what happened? I barely got 5 visitors!
I was missing something!
It was a plan for my blog. I needed a calendar of what I was going to publish, instead of relying on one blog post to attract readers.
And, one of the hardest things new bloggers face is planning that editorial calendar for the month or the quarter.
I have several blogs and every day I have to come up with blog topics in different niches. But how can you organize your blog post ideas as well as each blog post to ensure you are growing your blog each day?
You want to monetize a blog for 2023!
Yay!
When I started a mom blog my twins were still babies. I’m so glad I started even though I felt I had no time as a new mom. Finding the time to blog meant that I had to work when everyone was sleeping.
New to blogging?
If you recently started a blog, there are a whole bunch of free tools and services you can use to start blogging quickly.
One service that everyone has access to is Google.
Google has grown to more than a search engine to plug in your query and get an answer to your question.
There are free Google tools you can use as a new blogger to grow your blog traffic.
You hear so many bloggers telling you that Pinterest is how they exploded their blog. Or, it’s Facebook or Instagram that grew their blog traffic.
As a new blogger, this seems like a huge new feat to master. Maybe you’ve never used Pinterest to market your blog or you have no idea how to use Instagram for your business.
Are you thinking about starting a blog?
I’m sure the decision isn’t a fast one, right?
How do you definitively know you can make money with your blog? You spent – or will spend – probably a couple of hundred of dollars on starting a blog hoping to one day make money with it.
Ready to boost your traffic? One of the hardest things for new bloggers is getting eyes to their blog. You started a blog, but now what?
When I started this blog, I didn’t start actively trying to grow it until a month later. That first month was just for writing blog posts in my new niche topic.
You started your blog and have some blog posts published.
Give yourself a pat on the back!
The next question is how to get traffic to those posts and how much traffic should you be getting?
Have you experienced a viral pin lately?
It doesn’t matter if you’re new to blogging or have been blogging for years – when the powers up in Pinterest honor you with a viral pin, you go with it and run with it!
My very first viral pin happened within months of blogging.
